Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 02:32, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. Perhaps chromium has a built-in implementation.

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 18:46, Stefan Monnier wrote: Error no decoder found for audio/mp4a-latm It relies on non-free AAC codec that you likely do not have installed. That's a side-issue: the web page I pointed to has various videos in various formats and none of them work (hence the error messages ment

usermod video,audio (was: Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970)

On 16/08/2024 06:15, George at Clug wrote: usermod -a -G video,audio [myusername] It should not be necessary. Udev and systemd-logind "uaccess" feature grants permissions to the current active user through ACLs.

Re: Firefox doesn't want to see Pulseaudio

On 15/08/2024 20:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: I do have it installed. I also tried to install `libavcodec-extra` at some point (when I saw that `mp4a-latm` 🙂), but it made no difference of course. You do not have AAC in the list of supported codecs and I am unsure if it is due to alsa backend o

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

On 20/08/2024 05:15, Gary Dale wrote: tigervnc-server has a command line option to listen to the LAN but the Debian systemd service configuration doesn't invoke the server program directly, so I'm not sure how to get the option to the vnc server. [...]> This is the .service file: [...] ExecSta

Re: LXDE startlxde is resetting XDG_DATA_DIRS on Debian 12! (was Re: customize Debian 11 evironment in lightdm...)

On 19/08/2024 22:20, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: OK, so after this short recap to provide some context, this is the head of the /usr/bin/startlxde script that starts an lxsession [3]: [...] export XDG_DATA_DIRS="/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share/gdm/:/var/lib/menu-xdg/" [...] Actually a

UEFI multiboot (was: Re: Default partition mounts [ "Installation Guide" lacks index ])

On 20/08/2024 11:27, David Christensen wrote: AIUI UEFI/GPT were designed to support multi-boot Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. EFI files are signed for Secure Boot, so vendor paths can not be

Re: configuring tigervnc-standalone-server to listen on LAN

On 21/08/2024 03:42, Gary Dale wrote: $ systemctl status tigervncserver@:1.service ○ tigervncserver@:1.service - Remote desktop service (VNC) Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/tigervncserver@.service; enabled; preset: enabled) Active: inactive (dead) since Tue 2024-08-20 15:52:

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 20/08/2024 22:50, Nicolas George wrote: Max Nikulin (12024-08-20): Single EFI System Partition may contain loaders from different vendors, but not 2 Debian systems installed on different partitions. This is not true. The only problem you will have with this setup is that you will need to

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 21/08/2024 11:25, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-21 10:54 (UTC+0700): I was experimenting trying to get 2 entries from the same vendor in the UEFI (firmware) boot menu and found it tricky and inconvenient. How so? I found it quite simple to edit /etc/default/grub and

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 05:21, Felix Miata wrote: My BBS menu contains 4 entries corresponding to output from efibootmgr, with the highlight on the one beginning "opensusetw", as configured via GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=. Or it just coincides with the configured value. My expectation is that EFI/opensusetw/grub.

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote: # ls -gG/boot/efi/EFI/opensusetw/ total 148 -rwxr-xr-x 1 151552 Aug 21 16:08 grubx64.efi Am I right that you either do not use Secure Boot or generated a local key instead of/in addition to Microsoft and SUSE ones? In the case of default or almost defa

[SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot

On 22/08/2024 16:44, Felix Miata wrote: That is written by any process that reads GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= to determine where to do its writing on the ESP. To avoid confusion of those who may notice this thread in search engine results: In Debian GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR value is *not* passed to "grub-inst

Re: emacs service and session start

On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random socket name... And I do not see what starts it (I see the process ssh-agent /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 but I did not find which service starts it) It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 24/08/2024 05:11, Joe B wrote: i've been having an issue where my laptop powers off randomly when not connected to power. This has been happening since stable and currently i'm on unstable. I would like to use my laptop without power. It is unclear what actually happens, so it may vary from

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 25/08/2024 02:31, Joe B wrote: I will take the power cable off probably tomorrow or later on tonight. When it happens i will run those commands and will report back to this list You can run that commands while AC power adapter is connected. It should allow to estimate if battery is still he

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? If you are using gmail web UI and replying to a message from a mailbox then it should work, just use a proper button so send response to the mailing list, not a personal

Re: emacs service and session start

On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: On 23/08/2024 23:09, Erwan David wrote: Ok, it could work, ilf only ssh-agent was not started with a random socket name... And I do not see what starts it (I see the process ssh-agent /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 but I did not find which service starts it

Re: Replying to a conversation (Thread)

On 25/08/2024 12:39, Joe B wrote: On 25/08/2024 04:36, Joe B wrote: IF i see a thread i want to jump into to help out how can i be part of the conversation? [...] I gave up and now using K-9 mail and it seems to be working fine. I use Thunderbird and IMAP for gmail. Perhaps I stressed too m

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 25/08/2024 13:16, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# upower --dump [...] energy-full: 57.0714 Wh energy-full-design: 61.32 Wh So the battery has degraded a bit but capacity is still high enough. I hope it is reported correctly. There is no apparent sign of failure. [...] joe@debian:~$ grep '

Re: nvidia package 340xx

On 23/08/2024 18:51, Hans wrote: 2. Enter the line for sid into your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non-free-firmware [...] 5. Do NOT upgrade any other files! Do NOT aot upgrade or aptitude upgrade now although it will install many other pack

Re: emacs service and session start

On 26/08/2024 18:37, Erwan David wrote: On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent The question is why emacs.service is started before /usr/lib/openssh/agent-launch or plasma copies SSH_AUTH_SOCKET value to systemd environment

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 26/08/2024 00:37, Joe B wrote: root@debian:~# journalctl -b --grep="acpi MSFT0101" Aug 25 10:28:38 debian kernel: acpi MSFT0101:00: platform device creation failed: -16 My impression is that some ACPI errors are not rare. I have no idea concerning severity of this one. My question was if

Re: Subscribing to bug updates.

On 27/08/2024 00:08, Tim Woodall wrote: The emails to control and to the bugs themselves all worked, it's only the emails to the subscribe address that seem to have vanished. It precisely describes my experience as well.

Re: need help killing screen blanker

On 27/08/2024 01:46, Thomas Schmitt wrote: In these modern times, home office slave workers need ways to simulate relentless activity. Google "mouse jiggler", "auto clicker". There are mechanical mouse platforms, pseudo-mouse USB devices, and even software emulated mice. This case it would be e

Re: Laptop keeps powering off

On 28/08/2024 07:52, Joe B wrote: Here is journalctl -b -1 https://termbin.com/q6uw It would be helpful if you describe specific of this boot. If it is complete log then it looks like abrupt lost of power after 20 min of working on battery. It may be battery failure of bad contact. Were yo

Re: emacs service and session start

On 29/08/2024 12:56, Erwan David wrote: On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 06:13:23PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: On 23/08/2024 23:30, Max Nikulin wrote: It is started by /etc/X11/Xsession.d/90x11-common_ssh-agent [Unit] After=dbus.service ssh-agent.service Wants=dbus.service ssh-agent.service [Install

Re: emacs service and session start

On 30/08/2024 18:45, Erwan David wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 05:14:06PM CEST, Max Nikulin said: [Unit] After=dbus.service ssh-agent.service Wants=dbus.service ssh-agent.service [Install] WantedBy= WantedBy=graphical-session-pre.target [...] The after/wants does not work (starnge since

Re: emacs service and session start

Erwan, maybe you forgot to do disable/enable cycle after adjusting "[Install]" section of the unit configuration. systemctl --user list-dependencies --reverse emacs.service On 30/08/2024 19:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: It's amazing how badly the systemd folks managed to break *everything*. I'm pr

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 23/08/2024 11:39, Felix Miata wrote: I don't know what vexing secure boot might introduce, but without it, GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR= was used by grub-install in Trixie here to produce results I expected: [...] # grep TOR /etc/default/grub GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="debian13" [...] ├── debian13 │   └── grub

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 31/08/2024 14:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i add my two cents: https://wiki.debian.org/XorrisoDdTarget Thomas, are you intentionally linking raw man page instead of a formatted one [[DebianMan:xorriso-dd-target|xorriso-dd-target(1)]]? Is there a reason why the page is not cross-linked wit

Re: hunspell-gl does not match the description

On 31/08/2024 07:47, piorunz wrote: On 31/08/2024 01:17, John E Petersen wrote: I hand install my debian packages, and have an offline repository, because garbage like this tends to slip onto my machine. This package slipped in through firefox somehow, No, Firefox did not do that. It cannot in

Re: UEFI multiboot

On 30/08/2024 23:42, Felix Miata wrote: Max Nikulin composed on 2024-08-30 23:09 (UTC+0700): How does grubx64.efi find where grub.cfg is located? I don't know what doc might report this, but in a file viewer I see a string like (,gpt7)/boot/grub) embedded in a vast sea of nulls 98% o

Re: need help killing screen blanker

On 28/08/2024 01:58, gene heskett wrote: wakeup time is 5 + seconds by which time a sleeve caught on a chuck jaw has already tried to rip an arm off. Taking into account your approach to configure applications so sudo chmod 644 /etc/xdp/autostart/xscreensaver.desktop You need a larger red h

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

ebian GNU/Linux Installation Guide" should be first answer. This time the XorrisoDdTarget wiki page was posted earlier, so a link to the installation guide will increase a chance to make users aware of this document. On 02/09/2024 15:07, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Is t

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 03:32, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Franco Martelli wrote: consider to move that to a new wiki page with a title that sounds like: "Verify authenticity of a Debian downloaded ISO image". [...] But i think there are some issues to address: - How to generally advertise this page ? Link

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 23:45, Thomas Schmitt wrote: due to popular resistence i created a new wiki page https://wiki.debian.org/VerifyISOImage [...] Regrettably i was unable to mimick the bullet list paragraphs of the FAQ Do you mean something like

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 04/09/2024 15:17, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I tried "*" for bullet list. But it works only for a single line, not for a multi-line text paragraph as on https://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify I do not see anything special there. I have tried to convert to a bullet a random paragraph from the n

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 03/09/2024 00:11, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-09-02 at 12:51, Lee wrote: On Mon, Sep 2, 2024 at 5:25 AM Thomas Schmitt wrote: MS-Windows can eject a stick ? [...] (Sorry i could not refrain from this nonsense :)) but it isn't nonsense. Welcome to the world of Windowz, where one 'ejects

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 05/09/2024 16:25, Thomas Schmitt wrote: I let xorriso-dd-target use bs=1M oflag=dsync May too small bs value cause write multiplication if internal flash erasure block size is much larger? I have seen claims that it can be e.g. 12M

Re: Why are module parameters under /etc/modprobe.d not respected?

On 03/09/2024 22:51, ael wrote: I have /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda.conf which specifies: options snd_hda_intel id=[HDMI,PCH] index=1,0 [...] Maybe there are some release notes that I have failed to read? Can anyone point me in the right direction? (If the direction is Devuan, I have already moved

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 06/09/2024 14:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Jeff wrote: I've run into this situation (more than once)... `dd` fails to write a bootable image with a block size of 1M. But using a block size of 512 results in a bootable image. It used to happen regularly on arm dev boards, like BeagleBoards and Cu

Re: Usage: "debian ... amd64-netinst.iso"

On 06/09/2024 14:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: i wrote: I let xorriso-dd-target use bs=1M oflag=dsync Max Nikulin wrote: May too small bs value cause write multiplication if internal flash erasure block size is much larger? [...] My concern is wearing, Is there evidence that sync size a

Re: BASH reference for those who are "learning by doing"?

On 08/09/2024 04:22, Richard Owlett wrote: [My examples are from my experiments with re-formatting text at https://ebible.org/engkjvcpb/ for comfortable reading by fellow tri-focal wearing senior citizens - that I want to minimize the number of HTML tags & eliminating all CSS usage annoys some

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 09/09/2024 03:48, Pierre Willaime wrote: Thanks. My user was *not* member of the 'input' group. I made the change but it does not fix my issue (startx returns still an error, see my other email). Have you tried to boot from a live media? It should help to determine if your problem is caus

Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 11/09/2024 22:22, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 11, 2024 at 17:16:37 +0200, Pierre Willaime wrote: systemctl status dbus.service shows dbus is not active ("failed") and I have this message Failed to start message bus: Circular inclusion of file '/etc/dbus-1/system.conf' hobbit:~$ gr

KDE, switching users (was: Re: Circumventing keyboard problem on Lenovo R64)

On 12/09/2024 21:54, Hans wrote: If someone might also confirm of this little bug I mentioned here and knows better than me, he may just file a little bugreport to the developers of KDE. Maybe he also nows a little workaround??? [Ctrl+Alt+F8], [Ctrl+Alt+F7] work fine for me to switch between u

Re: [fixed]Re: startx returns "Xf86EnableIO: failed to enable I/O ports 0000-03ff"

On 13/09/2024 21:09, Pierre Willaime wrote: I do not think it was related to non-free-firmware repository (Here is my sources.list below) deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware It seems repositories are properly configured. In general however "apt

[SUMMARY] Re: UEFI multiboot

on of an image specific to the machine. On 30/08/2024 23:09, Max Nikulin wrote: I have tried some variants of full shim+grub signed configurations on [...] grubx64.efi (v2.06) from Debian bookworm has no problem with reading grub.cfg placed in the same directory and directory name does not m

qt5ct and environment variables (was: Re: password manager)

On 09/10/2024 07:38, e...@gmx.us wrote: Huh.  If I run it from a terminal emulator it looks fine, but if XFCE launches it the text is tiny.  Looks like QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME isn't being set.  Which means something is running a not-login shell, something between startx and xfwm.  It's defined in ~

Re: Firefox codecs

On 07/10/2024 23:47, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 11:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used. Now I'm writing from a computer where Firefox supports AAC tha

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 09/10/2024 10:52, Mike Castle wrote: Another option is the web app catching up on a backlog of messages suddenly streaming in. At least, if it has been a few hours (e.g., overnight or away from the computer). You may enable timestamps in Firefox dev tools and may try to correlate events wi

Re: Sharing NetworkManager Wi-Fi to systemd-networkd over ethernet

On 12/10/2024 22:51, Dmitrii Odintcov wrote: On the desktop side, I am unable to use the IPv4 method "shared to other computers" Perhaps you may configure dnscrypt to listen just lo interface, leaving ethernet one to dnsmasq. Another option is to configure NetworkManager connection with sta

Re: How to load new firmware?

On 15/10/2024 00:55, Lee wrote: $ apt search linux-image | grep installed To check kernel version use uname -a I'm not seeing an updated realtek firmware in backports: $ apt search realtek apt policy firmware-realtek or at least apt list -a firmware-realtek Anything else I

Re: Bug in 'more' command

On 15/10/2024 11:06, Todd Zullinger wrote: For additional (and _possibly_ interesting) context, this isn't a Debian-specific change. It's part of the upstream util-linux-2.38 release¹. It was submitted to the util-linux mailing list in 2021² and referenced the POSIX specification as the ration

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: In this case, the network state is not changing. Other applications, including wget, continue uninterrupted across vt-switches (Screen lock or User switching or Ctrl+Alt+Fn). Sometimes, the firefox gui is also a bit sluggish after returning from a vt-

Re: Stuck with linux 6.1.0.17-amd64

On 09/10/2024 16:30, Alexis Grigoriou wrote: root@architect:~# apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-image-amd64: Installed: (none) Install this package and it will pull latest kernel. Perhaps you need to fix nvidia issues as well.

Re: password manager

On 09/10/2024 06:11, fxkl4...@protonmail.com wrote: what are y'alls recommendations for a password manager Have you had a look into mailing list archives? E.g. Password managers. Thu, 9 Nov 2023 11:05:53 -0500

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 28/09/2024 22:04, George at Clug wrote: To get the earlier installations to discover the later installed installations, I ran grub-mkconfig I have never tried it, but my impression is that in the case of UEFI boot, rEFInd may detect installed OSes dynamically without explicit configurati

Re: setting keymap codes

On 05/10/2024 17:06, Hans wrote: As this keyboard differs in the layout cpompared to the old one, some keys are mapped other (i.e. page-up / down in the original needs the function key = second layer, in th enew one it is just page-up /down without any Function). [Fn] modifier perhaps requires

Re: Firefox codecs

On 05/10/2024 01:18, Bruno Schneider wrote: I noticed that about:support#media shows "AAC SW" at the working machine and shows nothing related to AAC at the faulty one. Do you have libfdk-aac2 or gstreamer1.0-fdkaac (non-free) installed? It may depend on whether PipeWire or PulseAudio is used

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 06/10/2024 03:04, Mike Castle wrote: For me, the biggest signal is GMail and similar apps will go into a "You are not online" state. Web applications may intentionally use various tricks to detect idle even though the following API is unavailable in Firefox

Re: Reading an old HDD

On 04/10/2024 14:19, Will Mengarini wrote: * Ash Joubert [24-10/04=Fri 16:38 +1300]: - Do you see anything in "journalctl -f" when you plug in the USB enclosure? No output when I unplug it and replug it. Do you start "journalctl -f" as root (e.g. sudo)? It is rather strange that nothing is

Re: Debian 12: User calls synaptic: Unable to authenticate root

On 06/10/2024 16:47, Joe wrote: My graphical menu calls synaptic-pkexec, and it definitely wants the root password, and it says so explicitly. My impression is that polkit dialog appearance depends on desktop environment. In KDE it is more confusing since it contains no hint if user or root p

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 07/10/2024 08:35, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: On Sun, Oct 6, 2024 at 8:32 AM Max Nikulin wrote: Firefox generates events in response to connection changes in NetworkManager: <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/onLine> In this case, the network state is not ch

USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

Hi, I have decided that it is time to buy a USB3 stick for live system (rescue) that boots fast enough. To my surprise I can boot kernel and initrd, but not live system. Kernel identifies the USB stick as another product and does not recognize the existing partition from which the kernel is l

Re: beeps and other sounds

On 19/10/2024 20:17, Greg Wooledge wrote: So, in conclusion, I really don't understand*nearly* enough about what's happening here. Do not forget about udev + systemd-logind uaccess feature that removes and adds ACLs to audio devices to the active user on VT switching. You may use "ps auxfw"

Re: How to load new firmware?

On 16/10/2024 04:43, Lee wrote: At least in ubuntu/mint, so what magic do I need to get it working in Debian??? - Ubuntu kernels are heavily patched - It may be some driver parameter - It may be related to some other package (wireless-regdb, etc.) - You may compare logs and try to find error m

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

On 20/10/2024 00:02, Stefan Monnier wrote: |__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M ID 8564:1000 Transcend Information, Inc. JetFlash [...] |__ Port 3: Dev 8, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 480M ID 090c:3265 Silicon Motion

Re: USB flash with varying VendorID:ProductId

On 21/10/2024 02:43, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Max Nikulin wrote: Just booting grub from internal drive in the case of a USB3 port does not cause switch from Transcend to SMI for Linux kernel. Can you provoke the transition while this Linux kernel is running ? My creativity has been almost

Re: [OT] Strange BitTorrent traffic from China IPs

On 22/10/2024 03:21, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: If I manually throttle these connections they disconnect after some time and soon after a new connection from another IP from the same subnet or different network establishes. May it happen that their internet providers have NAT and pools of I

Re: state of /etc/profile

On 17/10/2024 00:03, Hans wrote: whilst searching for the default umask setting and reading several manuals, I came to /etc/profile. In this file, the default umask is set. So far so well. I recall, umask set in /etc/profile is ignored by applications started through desktop environments. It

Re: Reading an old HDD

On 05/10/2024 11:15, Will Mengarini wrote: * Max Nikulin [24-10/05=Sat 10:48 +0700]: Try to connect the enclosure without the disk. It may appear in lsusb output and may generate some journalctl logs. That's a clever idea, but it will be a while before I can carefully unscrew the disk

Re: Virtualization of Windows XP

On 04/10/2024 20:56, Gary Dale wrote: I found another issue on one of the machines - spice was no longer supported either I still use spice (remote-viewer from virt-viewer) for Linux guests on bookworm, but I start qemu directly with "-display spice-app,gl=on". I have seen notices that it is

Re: Firefox pausing network activity during vt-switch / screenlock

On 02/10/2024 10:13, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Firefox (and thunderbird, as well) seems to be pausing all network activity when doing a vt-switch or user-switching or locking the screen. [...] Chromium, on the other hand appears not to suffer from this issue and the download progresses during s

Re: How to load new firmware?

On 14/10/2024 22:39, Lee wrote: reboot and it looks like the 9.9.15 firmware loads but wifi is still broken 🙁 Try to install newer kernel from bookworm-backports apt update apt install linux-image-amd64/bookworm-backports I do not use synaptic, so I can not tell you what button acts like "apt

Re: How to run 'pkg upgrade' as requested by apt?

On 28/10/2024 22:33, Michael Kjörling wrote: $ sudo grep -rvh '^#' /etc/apt/sources.list* | grep -v '^$' $ apt policy gives apt point of view, including pinning, and so it is more reliable. I admit it is more verbose. My impression is that variant of command with no package (to get overvie

Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

On 29/10/2024 20:14, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 10:05:44 +0300 Semih Ozlem wrote: and I am no longer able to save or download files to usb drives from chrome or browsers, I get the message Need permission to download. [...] Can you copy files to the USB drives manually, e.g. usi

Re: need .md reader that can print ONLY tha page being viewed

On 29/10/2024 10:42, David Wright wrote: Of course, much of this thread is moot if Gene is concerned only with printing parts of a text file, rather than sections of the processed marked-up document. I think, reading a rendered page from a document is more pleasant than raw markup, so selectio

Re: Opening a URL with NetSurf from another application

On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: But I'd like to be able to send URLs to NetSurf and can't figure out how to do it. Am I missing something? Say you'd like to install it as your default browser: how would you get it to open a new tab in an existing window when, e.g. `xdg-open` needs it

Re: Open links in existing browser window, not in current workspace

On 04/11/2024 22:03, Chris Green wrote: When I click on a web link in a terminal window I want the link to open in my existing browser window (which is usually on a different workspace). [...] I'm running xfce4 and my default browser is vivaldi. Is behavior consistent with the following comma

Re: absent last login report on vtty login

On 05/11/2024 20:17, Felix Miata wrote: This used to be a normal announcement on vtty login. On Trixie it's missing. Transition to 64bit time_t? https://www.thkukuk.de/blog/Y2038_glibc_utmp_64bit/

Re: Opening a URL with NetSurf from another application

On 05/11/2024 23:26, Stefan Monnier wrote: Max Nikulin [2024-11-05 23:04:16] wrote: On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: default browser: how would you get it to open a new tab in an existing window when, e.g. `xdg-open` needs it? <https://wiki.debian.org/DefaultWebBrow

Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

On 30/10/2024 11:47, Will Mengarini wrote: Check that your username is a member of the plugdev group. Is it necessary? My expectation is that uaccess feature of udev and systemd-logind should be enough at least for udisks.

Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

On 30/10/2024 09:19, Greg Wooledge wrote: Google supplies Chrome as a Debian package, in a private repository. It doesn't use snap or flatpak. My bad. I have chromium installed from Debian and I expected that vendors of proprietary soft prefer snap and flatpak to native packages.

Re: unable to save to usb drives from chrome

On 30/10/2024 01:52, Jeffrey Walton wrote: On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 12:46 PM Max Nikulin wrote: In the case of snap or flatpak sandboxing it may be a different kind of permissions. Check desktop environment settings for application permissions. I hope Snap is not making its way into Debian

Re: Unable to Resize Playlist Window in Qmmp Player

On 02/11/2024 03:05, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 11/1/24 15:56, Patrick Wayodi wrote: I'm not able to resize the playlist window in Qmmp Player. The playlist window's height is longer than my screen and I'm not able to see its bottom part. [...] 2.  Point to the window.  Hold down alt.  Then primar

Re: [solved, partly] Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

On 27/10/2024 21:56, David Wright wrote: On Sat 26 Oct 2024 at 20:55:11 (-0700), pe...@easthope.ca wrote: A Web search found mention of grub command nativedisk which I added. I don't know anything about nativedisk or the distinctions between various types of driver. [...] nativedisk se

Re: Grub menu entry for a system on a second drive.

On 25/10/2024 23:06, Joe wrote: On 25 Oct 2024 08:26:21 -0700 pe...@easthope.ca wrote: A new-to-me detail is hd0 having FAT and hd1 having GPT. According to this, OK for Grub2. [...] Modern drives use GPT partitioning, and modern computers generally have UEFI firmware rather than BIOS. The EF

Re: New Debian 12 installation, GUI login doesn't run .profile

On 26/10/2024 18:08, Chris Green wrote: Well on my previous XFCE installation on xubuntu it certainly did run ~/.profile. LightDM package in Ubuntu contains an additional script that reads ~/.profile (like SDDM in Debian). Some hints: -

Re: recover files

On 26/10/2024 02:03, Hans wrote: Am Freitag, 25. Oktober 2024, 20:32:29 CEST schrieb loulet...@sina.com: Hi folksIs there possible to recover deleted files in ext4 filesystem? Try extundelete. [...] Using an image, you can try nice tools like foremost, scalpel or autopsy to recover files. A

Re: battery tester

On 25/10/2024 03:07, Dan Ritter wrote: Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 kernel: [1915052.251232] usb 7-1.4.4: ch341-uart converter now attached to ttyUSB0 Oct 24 15:14:28 Workstation1 mtp-probe: checking bus 7, device 13: "/sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1a.7/usb7/7-1/7

Re: recover files

On 26/10/2024 14:53, Hans wrote: Yes, whilst extundelete is not so easy to use, Thank you for the detailed answer. I have tried ext4magic. My impression is that it might have an issue with reading journal and that it is unnecessary strict walking through inodes (zeroing invalidates checksums

Re: recover files

On 26/10/2024 20:26, Hans wrote: On 26/10/2024 18:37, Max Nikulin wrote: however I can not figure out what approach extundelete or other tools may use to noticeably improve success rate since important data is overwritten. As far as I know, it does not use journal. It is looking at the data

Re: How to generate a certificate for an HP printer?

On 23/09/2024 02:02, Charles Curley wrote: Networking -> Certificates -> Configure That gives me several options. I then selected "Create a New Self-Signed Certificate". That updated the certificate. I now cannot print on that printer, It is expected. Why your system should trust some new (and

Re: Chrome OS Flex on ThinkPad Edge E530

On 21/09/2024 16:35, Roberto Catanuto wrote: Hi, the truth is I use Chrome OS Flex on TP Edge E530. [...] Even when the good old laptop is connected to the power supply, the battery begins discharging after about one hour. [...] Do any of you have suggestions about solving this mystery ? If

Re: boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE

On 26/09/2024 04:19, George at Clug wrote: Grub did not find other existing Linux distributions. Found Windows, but not other linux distributions. The following has been discussed on debian-user:

boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Mate, XFCE (was: Re: Finding/creating Debian documentation for an unserved audience)

On 25/09/2024 04:52, George at Clug wrote: An other example would be to boot Debian Gnome, Debian KDE, and Debian Mate, Debian XFCE. What issues you have faced trying to install multiple desktop environment to the same Debian installation? Display managers allow to select session type before

Re: can't get the sound settings stable for my headset

On 25/09/2024 02:27, tom arnall wrote: immediately changes to handsfree, which produces only a hum in mono Is it a Bluetooth headset? That case see Debian wiki for limitations.

Re: Re： Is there any way to STD in Debian?

On 26/09/2024 21:36, YOYO wrote: The Debian 12 is running in VirtulBox 7.0.20. And I only assigned 2048 MB RAM to it. [...] All I can do is to fouce power-off and re-start it, just to found all running tasks gone. Have you read logs from the previous boot ("journalctl -b -1" as root)? Are you

<    3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >